THE PERCY CHARTULARY. North... Published for the Society by ANDREWS & CO., SADLER STREET, DURHAM; A. ASHER & CO., UNTER DEN LINDEN, BERLIN. 1911. At a General Meeting of the SURTEES SOCIETY, held inDurham Castle, on Tuesday, June 4th, 1907, Mr. J. CRAWFORD HODGSON in the chair, It was resolved, That the Percy Chartulary, edited by Miss M. T. Martin, be the volume for 1909. WILLIAM BROWN, Secretary. ALLEN DEC 9 INTRODUCTION. THE Percy Chartulary was apparently compiled in the time of Henry, fourth Lord Percy of Alnwick, upon his creation as Earl of Northumberland. It contains no later handwriting, and no document of later date than the charter of creation given on the coronation day of Richard II, 16 July, 1377.1 The volume consists of over eleven hundred conveyances of property which directly or eventually came to the Percy inheritance. About half the chartulary is occupied with lands in Yorkshire, and a quarter with Northumberland. The earliest charters in the volume belong to the middle of the twelfth century, when the greater part of the large possessions of the Percies in Yorkshire already belonged to them. At the time of the Domesday Survey, they held eighty-six lordships in the North Riding. Seamer, Whitby, and the manors of Spofforth and Topcliffe, for so long residential seats of his descendants, were all acquired in the lifetime of William, the first Lord Percy of Yorkshire, who died on the first crusade in 1096. In 1176, the inheritance was divided between the two daughters of William, fourth Lord Percy, Maud wife of William de Newburgh, Earl of Warwick, and Agnes, who married Joceline of Louvain, son of the Duke of Brabant, and brother of Adeliza, Queen of Henry I.2 The Earl of Warwick died. in a crusade in 1184, and Maud died in 1203, without descendants, leaving her inheritance to Richard de Percy, son of her sister Agnes; for nearly twenty years Richard disputed the inheritance with his nephew William, son of his elder brother Henry who had died before his mother. The manor of Settle, which, with a few other places, remained to Richard, was granted by him |